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Alleged motive in Vt. man's death disclosed -
Newly unsealed court documents say four Haverhill residents plotted for weeks to murder a developmentally disabled Vermont man because he made advances toward one of them.
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Shap Smith of Morristown elected speaker -
The Vermont House has elected state Rep. Shap Smith as speaker for the 2009-2010 session.
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Donovan elected new Conn. speaker of the House -
Meriden Democrat Christopher Donovan has been elected Connecticut new speaker of the House of Representatives.
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Sleet, freezing rain in RI make roads slick -
Roads are slick with ice in Rhode Island as a winter storm brings freezing rain to the state.
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Heavy rain causing flooding across South -
Heavy rain across the South on Wednesday caused flooding, school and road closures and a landslide that destroyed a home in North Carolina.
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Seal turns hatchery into all-you-can-eat buffet -
Life is a big buffet for a young seal with a talent for breaking and entering.
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Topless cafe gets Maine town planners' OK -
Vassalboro's planning board has approved an application for a coffee shop with topless waitresses despite opposition of most residents who showed up.
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Drug from genetically engineered goats a first -
In a scientific first, an anti-clotting drug made from the milk of genetically engineered goats is moving closer to government approval for humans.
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Rice presses Israel on Gaza ceasefire proposal -
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Israel on Wednesday to seriously consider an Egyptian ceasefire proposal as the U.N. Security Council weighed action to end Israel's attack on Gaza.
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Drug from genetically engineered goats a first -
In a scientific first, an anti-clotting drug made from the milk of genetically engineered goats is moving closer to government approval for humans.
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Feds charge 3 NYers in election bias attacks -
Three New York teenagers have been charged with federal civil rights charges in connection with election night racial violence in which attackers shouted "Obama."
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Canadian fishers 'vulnerable' -
A new study says Nova Scotia's fishery is still reeling from past overfishing and has been left "vulnerable" to the global economic crisis as a result.
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Gregg, Feinstein work on identity theft -
New Hampshire Republican Judd Gregg and California Democrat Dianne Feinstein are teaming up on legislation to fight identity theft.
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US judge dismisses pollution case against Cargill -
About 150 current and former Grand Island residents may not be able to hold anyone legally responsible for the groundwater contamination they say caused serious illnesses.
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Hostages freed from pirates off Somalia, Nigeria -
Pirates freed 20 hostages aboard a Turkish freighter commandeered off the Somali coast, as nine captives on a French boat were released off southern Nigeria, the boat owners said Wednesday.
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Private job losses mount in December -
Job losses and plans to lay off workers hammered the struggling U.S. economy in the final month of 2008, according to private reports that foreshadow grim labor market data from the government on Friday.
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2009 budget deficit is estimated at $1.2 trillion -
The federal budget deficit will hit an unparalleled $1.2 trillion for the 2009 budget year, according to grim new Congressional Budget Office figures.
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German polar bear Flocke gets zoo company -
Nuremberg's celebrity polar bear cub, Flocke, has a new friend: a Russian bear. The city's zoo says it introduced the male polar bear Wednesday to 1-year-old Flocke, who was raised by zookeepers after her mother rejected her.
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Rain douses Rose Garden presidential class picture -
That photographers' dream shot of the current president, the next president and the still-living presidents posing for a picture in the Rose Garden? Forget it! An unrelenting rain has forced the class picture inside.
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Billionaire Merckle's businesses get bank help -
The troubled business empire of German billionaire Adolf Merckle, who threw himself under a train this week in apparent despair over the impact of the financial crisis, has won a bridging loan from banks, his holding company said Wednesday.
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'Everyday Americans' invited to whistle stop tour -
President-elect Barack Obama has invited a group of "everyday Americans" to join him and Vice President-elect Joe Biden on their Whistle Stop Tour to the nation's capital on the Saturday before Inauguration Day.
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French leader: Israel, Palestinians OK Gaza plan -
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday that Israel and the Palestinian Authority have accepted an Egyptian-French plan for Gaza.
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Turkish police detain 40 in coup probe -
Turkish police detained about 40 people including three retired generals on Wednesday, media said, widening an investigation into an alleged plot to topple EU aspirant Turkey's Islamist-rooted AK Party government.
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7 Zimbabwe opposition members charged in bomb plot -
Seven members of Zimbabwe's main opposition party were the first of dozens of jailed dissidents to be formally charged Wednesday, and they pleaded not guilty in a bombing plot.
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Democrat Roland Burris blocked from Senate -
Roland Burris proclaimed himself the new junior senator from Illinois -- but it appeared only one fellow Democrat in the U.S. Senate chamber publicly agreed with him.
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Stimulus aside, Obama vows future budget restraint -
To a public wary of government spending, President-elect Barack Obama is offering a salve with his massive economic stimulus package: the promise of long-term fiscal discipline.
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On some bus routes, T posts watchful guard -
They are the most public of venues, traveling city streets with large windows and crowds of students, construction workers, and mothers pushing strollers. And yet the MBTA buses that rattle along some of the city's most dangerous corridors have not been public enough to deter crimes as violent as they are brazen.
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Patrick targets ethics lapses -
Governor Deval Patrick yesterday proposed a sweeping overhaul of the state's ethics and lobbying laws that would give an array of state authorities unprecedented powers to tap phones, subpoena records, and punish corrupt officials.
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Sheer ice? Just walk this way and hope -
Don Sweeney knows a thing or two about ice. First off, he's Canadian. Second, he was an All-American for the Harvard University hockey team. Third, he was a star defenseman for the Boston Bruins for 15 seasons, and he still works for the organization.
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A healthcare system badly out of balance -
This story was reported by Globe Spotlight Team members Scott Allen, Marcella Bombardieri, Michael Rezendes, and editor Thomas Farragher, as well as Liz Kowalczyk and Jeffrey Krasner of the Globe staff. It was written by Allen and Bombardieri.